The Story of Brain Surgery
Our American Stories
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4.6 • 817 Ratings
🗓️ 23 September 2024
⏱️ 59 minutes
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On this episode of Our American Stories, Dr. Theodore Schwartz is an attending neurological surgeon and professor of neurological surgery at Weill Cornell Medicine in NYC, one of the busiest and highest ranked neurosurgery centers in the world. His book, "Gray Matters: A Biography of Brain Surgery" is part memoir and part medical history and tells a compelling story of the life of a neurosurgeon, alongside a compelling history of brain surgery itself.
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